A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday (Aug. 20) tossed out a lawsuit brought by Gov. Matt Bevin (R) against the Medicaid beneficiaries who are challenging the state’s proposal to add work requirements and other coverage restrictions to the program.

A federal judge in Texas has partially granted a request from a group of Democratic attorneys general and rescheduled the oral arguments in the high-profile case over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act to start on Sept. 5, just one day after the Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to begin confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The case could make it to the high court, and Kavanaugh's potential vote on the suit that could strip protections for people with preexisting conditions has been a rallying point for Democrats seeking to oppose the SCOTUS nominee, and at least one expert suggests the result of the Texas case might make or break his confirmation.

President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to bring a federal lawsuit against opioid makers and distributors rather than just joining state suits, and to explore ways to stop opioids from coming in from China and Mexico, according to a White House press pool report from Thursday (Aug. 16).

A federal judge in Texas will hear oral arguments Sept. 10 on 20 GOP-led states’ request for a preliminary injunction that would immediately stop enforcement of the Affordable Care Act, and health and legal expert Tim Jost says the result of that hearing could make or break Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's chances of confirmation.

Advocates for Medicaid beneficiaries on Tuesday (Aug. 14) followed up a lawsuit over Kentucky's work requirements with a legal challenge to the Trump administration's approval of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.

The Supreme Court is likely to consider several cases that involve key pillars of the U.S. health care system, a group of around 120 consumer and patient associations told Senate leaders in a letter urging them to carefully consider nominee Brett Kavanaugh's position on health care.

The New Mexico co-op health plan, which previously sued CMS on the grounds its budget-neutral risk adjustment payment methodology discriminated against the Affordable Care Act's smaller, co-op plans, on Monday sued the agency a second time for relying on the same methodology in an interim final rule that resumed the 2017 risk adjustment payments.

Both sides in the lawsuit over Kentucky's controversial Medicaid waiver are asking a federal judge to retain jurisdiction over the case while the Trump administration attempts to comply with the judge's June ruling that blocked the so-called Kentucky HEALTH program from taking effect and ordered CMS to review it further.

Boston -- An industry lawyer told state insurance commissioners over the weekend that any governor who agrees with the Justice Department that the ACA's preexisting conditions and community ratings provisions must be scrapped when the individual mandate penalty goes away Jan. 1 must stop enforcing those provisions come that date.

The Department of Justice dances around its recent win in the risk corridors cases in order to argue that Congress' decision not to appropriate funding for ACA cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers means the court should dismiss Blue Cross and Blue Shield Of Vermont's lawsuit over the end of the CSRs.

Four issuers suing the administration for failing to pay risk corridor payments are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to hold a new hearing with the full panel of justices, saying an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel went against decades of legal precedent by finding an appropriations rider trumped the administration's obligation to make the payments.

The group of 18 Democratic attorneys general who intervened in Texas v. USA to defend the Affordable Care Act say the court should reject the Department of Justice's proposal to convert the GOP-led states' request to scrap the entire health law into a motion that only axes the law's mandate and preexisting conditions protections.

A coalition of 12 attorneys general on Thursday (July 26) sued the Trump administration over the association health plan (AHP) rule, charging the regulation is arbitrary and capricious because it deviates from years of settled ERISA law, as well as for other reasons, and thus should be vacated and set aside.

The Wisconsin-based health plan leading a class action suit against the administration for failing to pay the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction payments says a recent court decision on the risk corridor program compels the U.S. Court of Claims to rule in their favor on CSRs.

Hours after being sued by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen for allowing the compounding of cesium chloride, FDA agreed to the group's request in a December 2017 petition that cesium chloride be added to an interim list of bulk drug substances that are unsafe for use in compounding.